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Thank you all for tuning into our podcast. This is our attempt at archiving the history of game development of Indian creators, through their own stories and voice. We hope you find it interesting and engaging. If you have any thoughts and suggestions, please come by our discord and have a chat!
In this episode Rishi and Yadu talk to Arvind Raja Yadav, founder, designer and developer at Pyrodactyl Games about making games from college to finding Kickstarter success and more.
People in the podcast
Arvind Raja Yadav - https://twitter.com/arvindrajayadav
Rishikanth Somayaji - https://twitter.com/rks_89
Yadu Rajiv - https://twitter.com/yadurajiv
Notes from the podcast
Pyrodactyl Games - https://pyrodactyl.com/
The A.Typical RPG - https://pyrodactyl.com/atypical-rpg/
Will Fight for Food - https://pyrodactyl.com/will-fight-for-food/

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In this episode Arjun and Shagun talk to Nakul Verma, founder and director of Playbae Games about his gamedev journey from college days to releasing In My Shadow and more.
Nakul was selected as one of 2022’s Bafta Breakthrouhs from India. You can find Nakul online on the Playbae game’s account on twitter.
People in the podcast
Nakul Verma - https://twitter.com/playbaegames
Shagun Shah - https://twitter.com/ShagunShah
Arjun Nair - https://twitter.com/NairArjun
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Thank you all for tuning into our podcast. This is our attempt at archiving the history of game development of Indian creators, through their own stories and voice. We hope you find it interesting and engaging. If you have any thoughts and suggestions, please come by our discord and have a chat!
In this episode Rishi and Arjun talk to Mala Sen and Mridul Kashatria, the dynamic duo behind Niku Games about their past, present and future as an indie studio. The podcast delves into their upcoming title The Palace On The Hill, how they started, their process and what we can expect in the future.
You can find Mala and Mridul active on their Discord Channel.
People in the podcast
Mala Sen - https://twitter.com/senmalasen
Mridul Kashatria - https://twitter.com/mridkash
Rishikanth Somayaji - https://twitter.com/rks_89
Arjun Nair - https://twitter.com/NairArjun
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Thank you all for tuning into our podcast. This is our attempt at archiving the history of game development of Indian creators, through their own stories and voice. We hope you find it interesting and engaging. If you have any thoughts and suggestions, please come by our discord and have a chat!
In this episode Saumya Iyer talks to Shagun and Yadu about her past 16 years in the games industry so far, building and nurturing communities, working on mmos, early days of f2p in India and more
People in the podcast
Saumya Iyer - https://www.linkedin.com/in/saumyaiyer/
Shagun Shah - https://twitter.com/ShagunShah
Yadu Rajiv - https://twitter.com/yadurajiv


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Thank you all for tuning into our podcast. This is our attempt at archiving the history of game development of Indian creators, through their own stories and voice. We hope you find it interesting and engaging. If you have any thoughts and suggestions, please come by our discord and have a chat!
In this episode Yadu and Arjun talk to Shailesh Prabhu, founder of Yellow Monkey Studio, about his roots in the Indian games industry, the early days of the indie scene in India and much more.
People in the podcast
Shailesh Prabhu - https://twitter.com/shaileshprabhu
Arjun Nair - https://twitter.com/NairArjun
Yadu Rajiv - https://twitter.com/yadurajiv
Notes from the podcast
Yellow Monkey Studios - http://www.yellowmonkeystudios.com/
Ragnarok online - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnarok_Online
Dhruva interactive - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhruva_Interactive
Nazara Technologies - https://corp.nazara.com/
Avin Sharma - https://www.linkedin.com/in/avinsharma
Day of the Tentacle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Tentacle
Mortley - A Stitch in Time - Video
Finger Footie - http://www.yellowmonkeystudios.com/games/finger-footie/
It's Just a Thought - http://www.yellowmonkeystudios.com/games/its-just-a-thought/
Huebrix - http://www.yellowmonkeystudios.com/games/huebrix/
Krishna Israney - https://people.gamedev.in/krishnaisraney
Huebrix on Kongregate - https://www.kongregate.com/games/ymstudios/huebrix
Shareware - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareware
ID Software - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Software
Does Not Commute - https://www.mediocre.se/commute/
Socioball - http://www.socioballthegame.com/
Bluk - http://www.yellowmonkeystudios.com/games/bluk/
Apoorva Joshi - https://apoorvaj.io/
Deepak Menon Madathil - https://www.linkedin.com/in/deepak-menon-m
Creative Europe - https://ec.europa.eu/culture/creative-europe
Ramayana - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramayana
Fallout 3 release cancelled in India – Article
Saint Young Men - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Young_Men
Mahabharata - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahabharata
Shark Mob - https://www.sharkmob.com/
Resident Evil Village - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_Evil_Village
WarioWare - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarioWare:_Get_It_Together!
Elden Ring - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elden_Ring
Demon Souls - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon%27s_Souls_(2020_video_game)
Full Transcript
Yadu Rajiv 0:06
Hello, and welcome to the GameDev.in podcast. In this episode Arjun and Yadu catch up with Shailesh Prabhu to talk about his history with the Indian games industry, the early indie scene in India and much more.
Alright, today we have Shailesh Prabhu with us, who is the founder of Yellow Monkey Studios, and maker of many, many awesome games, and also communities as well. And many other things as well, which he will tell us what he has been doing for his entire life now. Over to you, Shailesh.
Shailesh Prabhu 0:45
Hi. I'm Shailesh. I. I've been working in games for I don't know, since 2004, or five, I think. Yeah, for almost nine years, nine months. I was at Yellow Monkey, which I founded and ran for that long. Yeah. I've worked at a bunch of studios in India. And before that, and after Yellow Monkey, I worked at a bunch of studios in Copenhagen, and then distributed work studio. And then now in Malmo, in Sweden. Yeah, I've worked on different scale of games from casual to hyper casual to AAA too. And we had a small community, which we're we're also running back back when I was in India, which, which Yadu was also I think, part of local indie game devs long ago. And I've helped, like, with some other community initiatives that were active in India when I was there. So yeah, that's, I guess me.
Yadu Rajiv 2:13
That is the briefest brief intro that we've had, I guess.
Arjun Nair 2:18
A good intro. shailesh. But when you start before

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Thank you all for tuning into our podcast. This is our attempt at archiving the history of game development of Indian creators, through their own stories and voice. We hope you find it interesting and engaging. If you have any thoughts and suggestions, please come by our discord and have a chat!
In this episode Yadu and Arjun talk to Armaan of Frostwood Interactive about his roots, inspirations for Rainswept, Forgotten Fields, and his next secret project.
People in the podcast
Armaan - https://twitter.com/Armaan_S92
Arjun Nair - https://twitter.com/NairArjun
Yadu Rajiv - https://twitter.com/yadurajiv
Notes from the podcast
Frostwood Interactive - Link
Rainswept - Link
Unity - Link
How I quit my 9-5 and became a full time indie game dev - Video
Twin Peaks - Link
Memories of Murder - Link
EGX Rezzed - Link
Forgotten Fields - Link
Rami Ismail - Link
Dino Digital - Link
Chit fund - Link
Neon Bedlam - Link
Poets of the Fall - Late Goodbye - Link
Silent Hill - Link
Invisible Waves - Link
Michal Michalski - Link
Goa - Link
Audacity - Link
Adventure Creator - Link
Alan Wake - Link
Silent Hill 2 - Link
Last life in the Universe / "Reung Rak Noi Nid Mahasarl" - Link
David Lynch - Link
Full Transcript
Yadu Rajiv 0:07
Hello, and thank you for tuning in to the gamedev.in podcast. In this episode Yadu, and Arjun talk to Armaan of Frostwood Interactive about his roots, inspirations for Rainswept, Forgotten Fields, and his next secret project.
So I guess I'll give a quick intro, I am Yadu. I mean, we have met Armaan, and I've met before in the IGDC. With the help of a bunch of people, we run gamedev.in. And this whole thing is basically like a way of trying to figure out whether we can kind of archive histories of game designers and developers who kind of make up our industry. How can we preserve this for a future generation, at the same time, also help kind of up and coming developers and also, so yeah, so all these kind of this is kind of where we started, when we thought about doing this kind of a podcast kind of a thing. So it's primarily archival in nature. And then we thought it will be interesting for people to just catch up and also to talk about what they're doing, who they are, those kind of things. So that is where I am coming from, this is Arjun, Arjun?
Arjun 1:26
Yeah. Hey. So I think I joined GameDev(.in) very recently. So my role has been to basically set up these chats so far. Basically, we're trying to have these conversations with all the indie game devs in India, at least, you know, their journey, document their journey and stuff. But my role so far in the industry has been as a professional programmer. So I've been in industry for some time now. And I thought it's time you know, that. And I've been very, you know, closeted kind of individual. I don't, I'm very private kind of individual. I don't mix with people. So I thought it's time to, you know, go out and meet someone new, faces and stuff. So, and Armaan I actually met you in 2019. In IGDC. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think you may remember me, and others lost souls, traveling through all the booths, you know, trying to check out stuff.
Yadu Rajiv 2:20
This guy's selling steam keys.
Arjun 2:24
That's what caught my eye like in the sea of commercial people. There's this one guy is selling steam keys ok, I had to check him out. So yeah, so I guess that's, that's us. Maybe Armaan, you can talk about yourself?
Armaan 2:40
Yeah. So I'm a game developer working solo under the name of Frostwood Interactive, and I've released two games so far. One was Rainswept in 2019. And the other one recently is Forgotten Fields. And yeah, I was an architect before that, but wasn't really interested in architecture. I guess we can go more in details later.
Arjun 3:01
Yeah, yeah.
Armaan 3:02
And yeah, so just a game developer, and I'm working on the third game